Friday, April 15, 2022
My first visit to this flashy jukebox musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was in December 2019, so it was great fun to revisit recently.
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Emma Zadow’s new play, Fridge, is a three-hander set in 21st century rural Norfolk as two sisters and a schoolfriend reunite seven years after a catastrophic event.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, March 25, 2022
A father and son meet in a wine cellar. The son is a recovering alcoholic, and his dad (a ghost, who left the son a nice bottle of red wine in his will) doesn’t seem to understand the harm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, March 20, 2022
Ghosts of the Titanic is set in the time following the disaster – near enough for it to be in the immediate memory, far enough for people to have moved on, hungry for other stories.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, March 17, 2022
We watch Romeo’s journey from the age of five (with his mum painting his nails) to eighteen, always knowing he was gay but dealing with the expectations of his peers as a young black man.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 9, 2022
Florian Zeller’s puzzles of the mind (The Father, The Mother, The Son, The Height of the Storm) continue to baffle audiences in his new play, The Forest, now in residence at Hampstead’s …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, February 26, 2022
Steven (a demonstrative David Ames) is celebrating his 47th birthday at the Manhattan branch of Joe Allen’s, where posters from little-remembered shows line the walls.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, February 22, 2022
Paul Bradshaw stars in his own coming-of-age comedy drama as Him, a young gay man finding his way through casual romance in London.
With George Greenland utilising a coat stand and ta…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, February 18, 2022
I wouldn’t call myself a Kate Bush fan, one of the shoal of ‘fish people’ who revere her, yet her songs have soundtracked my formative years. So she’s always been there in spirit.
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SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 11, 2022
Alexis Gregory’s one-man show is a passionate and engrossing piece of theatre, created and assembled from verbatim accounts from gay men who have encountered key points in queer history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Inspired by Peter Evans’ biography, released after Ava Gardner’s death, Elizabeth McGovern stars as the actress in the last years of her life, living in London.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Advertised as “an epic, intimate, family saga’, this new show from theatre company Kandinsky is certainly innovative in its approach.
Devised by its three performers (Nathaniel Ch…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 4, 2022
This is the second in a series highlighting shows and companies that should have played during at this year's cancelled Vault Festival and should have a future life elsewhere.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, January 31, 2022
Matthew Parker’s revival of the popular off-Broadway musical based on the story of teenage murderers Nathan Leopold (1904-1971) and Richard Loeb (1905-1936) is now is residence at the tiny…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, January 30, 2022
“As the lead in the first London production of the censorship-smashing 1968 rock musical Hair, Paul, unlike many of his co-stars, did not reveal all. In a manner of speaking, he does now…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, January 22, 2022
The recent news of the cancellation of the whole Vault Festival 2022 is undoubtedly a big blow to both fringe theatre performers and audiences.
This post is the first in a series high…
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We are in Cornwall, forty years ago, on the 19 December 1981. A lifeboat in Penlee Station answers a distress call, but never returned, with the loss of sixteen lives.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, January 2, 2022
The scene is set at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1910. A group of exceptional young men finish their education as the shadow of war slowly approaches.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, December 27, 2021
It’s been ten years since Bring It On was first made into a musical. These days it has an interest as a piece of Lin-Manuel Miranda juvenilia, pre-Hamilton and co-created with others.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, December 25, 2021
Mama G is back with her special brand of storytelling, this time in picture book format. Dick Whittington is the story of a young man seeking asylum in a country where it is OK to be gay.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, December 23, 2021
With two hours of acts ranging from catchers to aerialists, jugglers to puppet elephants, teeterboard leapers to hula hoopers, Circus 1903 has something for everyone.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, December 13, 2021
Although the show deals with death and grief, it is done in a sensitive way you can explain to a child.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, December 11, 2021
Clare Bloomer is Tracy, fifty years old and stuck in her kitchen making Christmas dinner for her extended family (all 21 of them).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Following the success of 2019 ‘slumber party panto’ Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers, Sleeping Trees are back for a live residency of mayhem, song, and storytelling in the Council Cha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
We meet Vanya and Sonia in their morning room, which overlooks the pond. We are in America, and they wait for the daily appearance of the blue heron.
Named by parents who loved Chekh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, November 28, 2021
You know the story of how two Cambridge students, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (who also directs) created this Tudor “herstory”, took it to Edinburgh, and recently opened it after COVID del…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 22, 2021
When you take your seats at the Chiswick Playhouse, you note how richly detailed the set is for Love Dance. We are in a flat which is presumably a decent one-bed set-up with a shared living/…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Marsha Norman’s 1981 play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on its debut, and remains one of the best plays I have read on the page, long before I saw it acted.
The story of Jessie C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Pete is lonely. His dad is sick, his mother dead, his job boring. His only love is his cello, until he connects to Angie through a lonelyhearts ad.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's new play is a raw and physical exploration of how motherhood can be tough, and how some mothers can be failed by the system set up to protect their children.
Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 9, 2021
As five conspiratorial servants potter around the stage before the show proper, we know this is going to be no typical Jane Austen adaptation. This is Pride and Prejudice as you never knew i…
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